HACKED IE 7 Browser Windows XP. Firewall, Security and Control Gone!
Was playing online bingo when attacked by vicious malware that bored its way through my firewall and my Security Suite settings. I got a pop-up that told me my browser had been hacked at that for some money I could get a downloaded FIX called XP Spyware Alert 2010 from someone called West Coast Labs and it provided a form to fill out BUT I saw at the top that there wasn't an "S" in front of the HTTP to indicate a secure website so I did not submit the information. I deleted it. DELETE in Parentasese(It said something about) for some reason my delete key and function was compromised by this THING too. It set up a look-a-like security center with the same security shield and everything. I could not tell the differance between the old verses the new but I eventually found out that I had a fake security center because when clicking on the control panel link it took me to the menu where I selected Security center that displayed the usual information (Firewall on, Virus Protection on) BUT when I back tracked and selected the control panel again but could not access the Internet options link I knew something was amis. For some reason it defenitely won't let you into the Internet Options link.Then, I tried to select Firewall settings from that same menu display BUT when it came up the display contradicted what the Security Center had displayed previously! This Firewall display told me that the firewall was not on and that the virus protection was off too! I tried to download some security scanners from the internet but it locked them out completely! I tried to download Microsoft defender and the browser security would not let it download either! It won't let me change any thing! It has locked me out of the security center completely! The tools icon at the top of my page is gone. I cannot use some but not all other arrow icons at the top of my page. I was able to run a anti-virus scan that identified two viruses. One was a bogus TEMP file which could not be quarenteended, specifically an EXPLOIT .JSP dfka.bvj that I decided to remove entirely using the disk clean up utility which unfortunately erased all of my Favorites links completely. I would not make this move again because I lost a bunch of really good links. The other virus was quarenteened by the scanner, specifically TROJAN .win32 fraudpack.acuf System restore did its best but will not sanitize the culprit. It still denies me any downloading from the internet which means I cannot even download IE8 to possibly fix some of the damage. This THING also tells you that your virtual memory is LOW and that your paging file is being increased because of this but I know that is a lie because I have plenty of space on my C disc before this thing hit. The alert is bogus but it is defenitely sucking all of the life out of my RAM. This thing is a real monster! If you can't control the security center then you know your done for and that you cannot trust it anymore. Someone better find a bullet for this thing or its going to suck the life out of everyone's PC!!!! Does anyone out there have a fix that I don't have to download from the internet? Is there a guide that I can buy from the bookstore that I can use to completely redo my hard drive or is that too extensive for this problem?2 people need an answerI do too
March 24th, 2010 7:37pm

Was playing online bingo when attacked by vicious malware that bored its way through my firewall and my Security Suite settings. Does anyone out there have a fix that I don't have to download from the internet? Is there a guide that I can buy from the bookstore that I can use to completely redo my hard drive or is that too extensive for this problem? The malware was loaded onto your system via javascript because an application or program had not been kept updated . Was the online bingo game a Flash (Player) based game or Java based ? Regardless of how the system was compromised, whatever the installed antivirus is should have prevented this from occurring unless that, too, was not updated to it's latest definitions. If it was kept updated, then it's worthless and you will need another AV once the system is reinstalled. Do you have the XP installation CD ? That would be the best method to ensure that this malware is completely gone as you should format the Hard Drive and reinstall XP at this point in time. You will need to enter the system's setup and set it to boot from the CD. That information is usually available when the system first starts up. Somewhere on the boot screen there will be instructions to enter Setup by pressing a key on the keyboard. Note what it says and hit that key, then either read the Help file or, if you can figure out which tab to open, set the CD as the first device in the Boot order. Exit Setup and ensure that the changes have been saved , and then immediately put the XP installation CD in prior to the system restarting. Choose Install and ensure that you format the Hard Drive where XP will be installed to or the malware will persist . You can not do a Repair of XP as that will not remove the malware. If the XP installation disk does not include Service Pack 2 then open Windows Firewall in Control Panel and turn it on prior to connecting the system to the internet when the system does it's final restart and the installation finishes. Once the Windows Firewall is on you can connect the system to the internet and Activate it. IF the installation CD included Service Pack 1a or 2, then you can now download the entire Service Pack 3, save it , and then install it so that you will not have to do countless number of updates, just the ones released since SP3 was published: Windows XP Service Pack 3 (32 bit, x86) IF the XP installation CD does not include SP 1a or SP2 , then download SP2 and save it by clicking this link . Install SP2, with all the required restarts, and then install SP3. Then connect the system to the net and the other updates will come down via Automatic Updates. Finally, install either Avast or Antivir as the anti virus and make sure once they are installed that they, and all programs and applications , are kept up to date. This blog article offers an explanation of how your system was most likely compromised: Ads poisoning – JS:Prontexi MowGreen Update Services - Consumer Security
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